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How to Find Port a USB Device is Currently Using

I have an old USB device that, sadly, doesn’t seem to have a serial number associated with it for me to uniquely identify it when it’s in use. Is it possible that I could do something in Linux to let me know what USB port is in use and connected to a USB device?

lsusb "-v"
will give your needed information..
-v, --verbose
Tells lsusb to be verbose and display detailed information
about the devices shown. This includes config-ration descriptors for
the device's current speed. Class descriptors will be shown, when
available, for
USB device classes including hub, audio, HID, communications,
and chipcard.